The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.
Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.
[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.
Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.
The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.
Members of the media, Jim Acosta of CNN and Glenn Thrush, formerly Politico, now the New York Times, and all of them actually think the Statue of Liberty is the symbol of immigration. And they believe the Emma Lazarus poem that is on the pedestal is the equivalent of immigration policy in the United States. They're not the only ones.
I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.
There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.